About Irene & Chris

We are Chris and Irene.....been together and married for 46 years with three adult children and give and half grandchildren....the *half* is due early 2019. Chris is retired but still does the odd bit of IT consultant and can do most this remotely....i retired three years ago from a long career as registered child minder to children with additio...

We are Chris and Irene.....been together and married for 46 years with three adult children and give and half grandchildren....the *half* is due early 2019. Chris is retired but still does the odd bit of IT consultant and can do most this remotely....i retired three years ago from a long career as registered child minder to children with additional needs and for last ten years to a young adult with additional needs...he is now 24 years and still a friend of our family.We moved from Edinburgh to Bracknell in 1984 and lasted over 30 years before moving home to our beloved Edinburgh ...we so enjoy being tourists in our own city and around Scotland too...seeing places and doing things we never had chance of time to do when raising our family and working Pet sitters ...we are hoping will give us more opportunities for all we want to do before we **pop our clogs **

Why we want to house sit

The main reason we want to house and/ or pet sit is that after decades of raising our own family and then caring at times for grandchildren and working we came to the realisation that we haven't done much other than that ! After cancer and surgery and radiotherapy two years ago we took a long hard look at the present and future picture of what we wanted our lives to look like and we certainly didn't see us sitting at home knitting and watching telly.We have two properties we rent out at various times with Airbnb and this gives us freedom to travel wherever a house sit beckons . Our children are 100% behind us and telling us to ** go for it ** and hopefully that's just what we will be doing We think we are looking at longer situations eg..weeks/ months rather than just a week or shorter term and have our own car and willing to fly if overseas

Our experience

Although we haven't had a family cat for a few years nearly all our friends have one and at times three ! And we have often done the odd overnights or daily popping in to feed and cuddle and generally check all is wellOur main experience is our own dogs over the years and have included ..rescue mutts...west highland terrier and lastly a couple of Labradors ...the final pooch....Oskar we had to say good bye to him three years ago and he was the best of the best for sure .....but at 14 he was tired and in pain so we made decision to have him sleep away.So now we enjoy our friends and families dogs and small animals...our son has two Labradors ....alfie and buster...alfie is 11 but acts like a bouncy hyped up teenager and buster we think he is slightly autistic (!) ..he was rescued at 18 months old and sadly he never learned how to play...he has no clue what a tennis ball is for or a toy to play tug with.....but he is the sweetest pooch and adores his humans and for some weird reason enjoy s watching telly especially sports! Before we made decision not to have our own dog again we visited several rehoming charities and went to Portugal in February to volunteer at a rescue centre there and were very close to bringing one back with us ....but we really feel we want to travel around the UK and abroad so committing to owning our own dog isn't possible and we get the best of both worlds when we Pet sit

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07 July 2018

Irene and Chris will be a great couple to use as carers for you pet while you are on holiday

Ive know them for some 30 years and saw the way they cared for thier dog Oscka. The will take good care and will treat your home with the respect you would expect so that you can relax on your holiday kn... + More

Irene and Chris will be a great couple to use as carers for you pet while you are on holiday

Ive know them for some 30 years and saw the way they cared for thier dog Oscka. The will take good care and will treat your home with the respect you would expect so that you can relax on your holiday knowing all is well at home. I would give them full stars on each of the of the categories

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27 June 2018

Irene has looked after our house on many occasions when we have been away on holiday. We preferred her to come to our own home as we have a dog and it is easier for our dog to be in his own environment.Irene is prompt to respond when we requested dates and is a lovely lady when we met in person.... + More

Irene has looked after our house on many occasions when we have been away on holiday. We preferred her to come to our own home as we have a dog and it is easier for our dog to be in his own environment.Irene is prompt to respond when we requested dates and is a lovely lady when we met in person. I have no complaints at all and we will continue to use her to house and pet sit for us.

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About Irene & Chris

We are Chris and Irene.....been together and married for 46 years with three adult children and give and half grandchildren....the *half* is due early 2019. Chris is retired but still does the odd bit of IT consultant and can do most this remotely....i retired three years ago from a long career as registered child minder to children with additional needs and for last ten years to a young adult with additional needs...he is now 24 years and still a friend of our family.We moved from Edinburgh to Bracknell in 1984 and lasted over 30 years before moving home to our beloved Edinburgh ...we so enjoy being tourists in our own city and around Scotland too...seeing places and doing things we never had chance of time to do when raising our family and working Pet sitters ...we are hoping will give us more opportunities for all we want to do before we **pop our clogs **

We are Chris and Irene.....been together and married for 46 years with three adult children and give and half grandchildren....the *half* is due early 2019. Chris is retired but still does the odd bit of IT consultant and can do most this remotely....i retired three years ago from a long career as registered child minder to children with additional needs and for last ten years to a young adult with additional needs...he is now 24 years and still a friend of our family.We moved from Edinburgh to Bracknell in 1984 and lasted over 30 years before moving home to our beloved Edinburgh ...we so enjoy being tourists in our own city and around Scotland too...seeing places and doing things we never had chance of time to do when raising our family and working Pet sitters ...we are hoping will give us more opportunities for all we want to do before we **pop our clogs **

Why we want to house sit

The main reason we want to house and/ or pet sit is that after decades of raising our own family and then caring at times for grandchildren and working we came to the realisation that we haven't done much other than that ! After cancer and surgery and radiotherapy two years ago we took a long hard look at the present and future picture of what we wanted our lives to look like and we certainly didn't see us sitting at home knitting and watching telly.We have two properties we rent out at various times with Airbnb and this gives us freedom to travel wherever a house sit beckons . Our children are 100% behind us and telling us to ** go for it ** and hopefully that's just what we will be doing We think we are looking at longer situations eg..weeks/ months rather than just a week or shorter term and have our own car and willing to fly if overseas

Our experience

Although we haven't had a family cat for a few years nearly all our friends have one and at times three ! And we have often done the odd overnights or daily popping in to feed and cuddle and generally check all is wellOur main experience is our own dogs over the years and have included ..rescue mutts...west highland terrier and lastly a couple of Labradors ...the final pooch....Oskar we had to say good bye to him three years ago and he was the best of the best for sure .....but at 14 he was tired and in pain so we made decision to have him sleep away.So now we enjoy our friends and families dogs and small animals...our son has two Labradors ....alfie and buster...alfie is 11 but acts like a bouncy hyped up teenager and buster we think he is slightly autistic (!) ..he was rescued at 18 months old and sadly he never learned how to play...he has no clue what a tennis ball is for or a toy to play tug with.....but he is the sweetest pooch and adores his humans and for some weird reason enjoy s watching telly especially sports! Before we made decision not to have our own dog again we visited several rehoming charities and went to Portugal in February to volunteer at a rescue centre there and were very close to bringing one back with us ....but we really feel we want to travel around the UK and abroad so committing to owning our own dog isn't possible and we get the best of both worlds when we Pet sit